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Alone We Came, Alone We Shall Return
<p style="text-align: center;">We spend our entire lives trying not to be alone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We search for people.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We search for love.</p><p style="text-align: center;">For friendships that feel permanent.</p><p style="text-align: center;">For homes that don't feel temporary.</p><p style="text-align: center;">For someone who'll look at us and say,</p><p style="text-align: center;">"Stay."</p><p style="text-align: center;">And maybe they do.</p><p style="text-align: center;">For a while.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But nothing here has ever truly belonged to us.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not the people.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not the places.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Not even the version of ourselves we're so attached to.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Everything changes.</p><p style="text-align: center;">People leave.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Or we do.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Love fades.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Or we outgrow it.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Bodies weaken.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Memories blur.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Names become photographs.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Photographs become dust.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It's strange, isn't it?</p><p style="text-align: center;">We arrive here with nothing.</p><p style="text-align: center;">No possessions.</p><p style="text-align: center;">No titles.</p><p style="text-align: center;">No reputation.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Just a heartbeat.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And after spending an entire lifetime collecting things—memories, money, people, accomplishments—we leave the exact same way we came.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Empty-handed.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe that's why attachment hurts so much.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We're trying to make permanent what was only ever passing through.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We call people ours.</p><p style="text-align: center;">My friend.</p><p style="text-align: center;">My lover.</p><p style="text-align: center;">My family.</p><p style="text-align: center;">But were they ever truly ours?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Or were we simply fortunate enough to walk beside each other for a little while before the road split into different directions?</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe loneliness isn't the absence of people.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe it's the realization that no matter how deeply someone understands you...</p><p style="text-align: center;">...there are rooms inside your mind they'll never enter.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Thoughts you'll never explain.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Fears you'll never find the words for.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And when your final breath arrives...</p><p style="text-align: center;">No one can breathe it for you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">No one can walk that last step beside you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The crowd stops at the edge.</p><p style="text-align: center;">The journey continues alone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">It's a thought that sounds cruel...</p><p style="text-align: center;">Until you look at it differently.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe we were never meant to own people.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Maybe we were only meant to experience them.</p><p style="text-align: center;">To laugh together.</p><p style="text-align: center;">To cry together.</p><p style="text-align: center;">To heal together.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Then let time do what time has always done—</p><p style="text-align: center;">Keep moving.</p><p style="text-align: center;">So while we're here...</p><p style="text-align: center;">Love deeply.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Speak honestly.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Forgive quickly.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Stay a little longer when someone needs you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Because everyone you meet...</p><p style="text-align: center;">is another soul walking beside you for a fraction of eternity.</p><p style="text-align: center;">They were never yours to keep.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Neither were you.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We came alone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">We'll leave alone.</p><p style="text-align: center;">Everything in between...</p><p style="text-align: center;">is simply borrowed.</p><p style="text-align: center;">And perhaps that's what makes every shared moment...</p><p style="text-align: center;">worth grieving,</p><p style="text-align: center;">worth remembering,</p><p style="text-align: center;">and worth loving,</p><p style="text-align: center;">before silence asks for us back.</p>
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